A photograph of a cigarette containing blue asbestos in its filter is commonly shared on various social media channels, including Reddit: These photographs typically identify the item pictured as ...

Filters in cigarette butts, the most common form of litter, leach assorted toxic chemicals and microplastic pollution into the environment — and must be “completely banned”. This is the ...

Trillions of cigarette filters—also known as butts or ends—are left over, only an estimated third of which make it into the trash. The rest are casually flung into the street or out a window.

Two new studies from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Global Tobacco Control point to some possible solutions that could help curb tobacco's human health and environmental effects simultaneously, ...

Featuring a triple-layer filtration system—nanobeads, high-fiber cotton, and microporous barriers—these next-gen cigarette filters aim to reduce visible tar buildup, preserve cigarette flavor ...

A ban on plastic cigarette filters could prevent swimmers from bathing among “grim” butts, a Conservative former minister has said. Dame Caroline Dinenage proposed the ban as an amendment to ...

Millions of littered cigarette filters pollute Baltimore’s water and soil, the city said in the suit filed in the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. Since May 2014, trash wheels have collected ...

The lawsuit filed Monday, opens new tab in Maryland state court said the tobacco companies’ refusal to use biodegradable cigarette filters or to add labels to packaging that warn about the ...

TerraCycle covers the cost of shipping to their New Jersey facility so that the plastic microfibers in the cigarette filters can be recycled into outdoor plastic furniture. In fact, two park ...